By: Katelyn Tijerina
I recommend “A Quarter Life” by Tyler Pufpaff. It may be small but it is powerful. “A Quarter Life” is raw and true, Mr.Pufpaff talks about the tragedies and hardships of life while using lyrical language. You may be able to finish this book quickly due to its lack of pages but when you turn that last page, it leaves you contemplating. If you like books such as “Depression and other magic tricks” and “The Princess Saves Herself in This One” you’re sure to like this chapbook! Don’t just take it from me here are other reviews;
“In A Quarter Life, some dark alleys of life are consciously placed into a grey landscape. The rut and the fever of living become tractable ‘mentalscapes’ here. The poems are acutely self-aware and sensitive to the concept of being, even ‘feeling’ it pop in and out of existence, and hop across life’s milestones. Tyler manages to elegantly rehabilitate amorphous concepts of life into a sky of clarified thoughts, and that is no easy task”
Kalyani Bindu, Author of Two Moviegoers
“These poems ache and anger, but follow through to forgiveness and a redemption of the speaker and an often hostile world. Tyler Pufpaff is a fresh voice in poetry, but one that carries enough wisdom and expirence to be able to balance its incandescent energy with perspective and posie. A Quarter Life welcomes all comers, young and old.”
Shawn Delgado, Author of A Sky Half-Dismantled
“A Quarter Life is a visceral offloading of that which we often cannot carry inside. PufPaff tosses away stigma in favor of a raw glimpse at what it feels like to want more from living.”
Jamie Dill, Owner and Developmental editor of Polish & Pitch, LLC
